League has no comment on report of Peterson-Jones conversation

Posted by Mike Florio on August 28, 2014, 2:18 PM EST

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In response to the report that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Vikings running back Adrian Peterson talked about Peterson playing for the Cowboys when his time with the Vikings ends, PFT contacted both teams and the league office for comment.

The first comment has arrived. And the first comment is that the NFL has no comment.

Often in cases of potential rules violations, the NFL will say that the matter is being investigated. While that may be the case as to the Jones-Peterson conversation, the league isn’t saying so. The league isn’t saying anything.

And before anyone suggests that the league will look the other way because Jones is one of the more influential owners, keep in mind that Jones received a $100,000 fine in September 2009 for talking about the CBA talks. Also, Jones’ team lost $10 million in cap space for treating the uncapped year of 2010 as uncapped.

Does it matter that Petterson called him? I hope my favorite team has their players call owners and get them suspended/fined/or loss of draft picks. If Jerrah (and I’m no fan) gets in trouble so should Petterson. Not that he will, but why punish someone for picking up the phone.

The Vikings won’t be done with Adrian until Adrian can’t play at a high level anymore. I don’t know why Jerry would want him then. He didn’t keep Emmitt Smith around, and Smith had kind of a history with the Cowboys.

Dallas is still one of the top revenue generating teams (despite a bunch of mediocre years) , while the Vikings, well, are just trying to tread water to stay afloat. Who do think the NFL mgmt is going to favor in this situation?

“This was a casual conversation between NFL colleagues in which I never indicated I wanted to leave the Vikings. I have always said I understand the NFL is a business but that I would love to retire as a Viking.”

Adrian Peterson is now on the downside of his career. He’s still a slightly above average running back, but in one or two more seasons he’ll be a pathetic shell of his old self, desperately trying to squeeze as much life out of his career as he can possibly manage. As a Packer fan, I’m looking forward to seeing that happen (maybe even this year).

How about a three-way trade involving Minnesota, Dallas, and Arizona??? Arizona sends Fitzgerald to Minnesota, who then sends Peterson to Dallas, then Dallas sends draft picks to Arizona. Everybody comes out a winner.

Does it matter that Petterson called him? I hope my favorite team has their players call owners and get them suspended/fined/or loss of draft picks. If Jerrah (and I’m no fan) gets in trouble so should Petterson. Not that he will, but why punish someone for picking up the phone.
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In a situation like this, League rules indicate a GM is supposed to “immediately” notify the team who holds a player’s contract that such player has spoken with the other team.

So yeah, you can pick up the phone, but if it’s someone else’s player, you are supposed to tell that player’s team right away. Jerry Jones admits he never did that.

Good ol boy Jerry Jones. Not surprising. Rules are for other people, and if he gets caught breaking them, it’s just a slap on the wrist or not much more.

The NFL should continue their education of Jerry Jones by heavily fining, forfeiture of picks, and losing some more cap space.

After all Jerry has to work on breaking those defensive futility records.

This is bigger then any of those other situations. Here you have the marquee player at his position in the entire NFL being courted under the table, using code words. (and again, this is AFTER he’s been sanctioned those other times)

It’s clear Jerry Jones is from the ‘if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying’ school of thought.

“Why on earth would Adrian Peterson want to go from one mediocre team to another?” Are you completely daft in the head? why did Greg Jennings leave Rodgers and the Packers when they made him a star,and why did James Jones do the same thing to go to a crappy Oakland team? money,money and more money,loyalty to a team is long gone if it ever existed at all which is doubtful.just the threat of AP going to Dallas will bring his future paychecks up considerably from whoever gets him.